Category: Tech Stuff

This year I thought I’d treat myself to a new toy from my parents for Christmas (plus a bit of savings!). I rarely buy myself anything these days, most money goes on the kids once the bills are paid, or...

Recently I’ve got back into using my PDA, mainly because I found my spare charger meaning I could keep it charged by the bed (I’d packed it in a box when we moved and never unpacked it!). Anyway, so once...

There’s this new hosting around called Cloud Hosting (well it’s new to me!). It’s a different type of hosting than normal server hosting in that the site files are on a server cluster, so you don’t get slowed down by...

My Mum’s laptop has been slowing down on her recently and she’s clearly getting fed up with it. Admittedly it was the bottom of the range and bought 2.5 years ago. It’s running XP Home with 256MB RAM so I’m...

I downloaded the Portable Firefox 3 from PortableApps the other day, to run on my external harddrive and see how the new version was going without overwriting my current installation. Before running it I copied my profile over from my...

Today has been mad with email spam. I’ve had around 250-300 spam mails slip past Spam Assassin. Thankfully I run Mailwasher Pro on my computer so this picks up and colours all of my obvious spam in a very bright...